{"id":7447,"date":"2021-08-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2021-08-24T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T05:00:00","slug":"a-busy-little-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-busy-little-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Busy Little Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Birmingham Age Herald, August 24, 1913<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again he comes, on eager feet,
    His wagon at his heels;
He pauses at my window seat
    And for my trade appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat will you have?\u201d I hear him ask
    In brisk, storekeeper voice;
And I must lay aside my task
    And gravely make my choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he, as I each package name,
    As gravely hands it out;
Then, with my note in pay for same,
    He hurries on his route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For cash, it seems, he little cares\u2014
    He knows my word is good;
And so I question not his wares
    As good housekeepers should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I fear the coffee that I buy
    Is pebbles, picked with care;
I dare not in the sugar pry
    For only sand is there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My beefsteak is a sorry show\u2014
    I think it must be bone;
And for a loaf of bread I know
    He\u2019s wrapped me up a stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But bless his heart! I help him play
    In every way I can;
And so he labors through the day
    A busy little man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Birmingham Age Herald, August 24, 1913. Again he comes, on eager feet,    His wagon at his heels;He pauses at my window seat    And for my trade appeals. \u201cWhat will you have?\u201d I hear him ask    In brisk, storekeeper voice;And I must lay aside my task    And gravely make my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}